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Manu

[ man-oo ]

noun

, Hindu Mythology.
  1. the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race.


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Example Sentences

Clare, Manu, and I were held incommunicado for 44 days, except for one phone call to our families.

We—Anton, Clare Gillis, Manu Brabo, and I—were all running from two trucks full of soldiers firing wildly at us.

The other two are Spanish photographer Manu Brabo and Anton Hammerl, a South African photographer.

Seumanu gave me one of his names; and when my name was called at the ava drinking, behold, it was Au mai taua ma manu-vao!

What health and wealth father Manu acquired by his sacrifices, may we obtain the same, O Rudra, under thy guidance.

In time the fish complained to Manu that the river was too small for it, so he carried it to the sea.

In the Brahmanas, Manu, and the Mahabharata, we find a sort of heaven for the virtuous and a hell for the vicious.

In prescribing a marriageable age for high-caste Hindu girls Manu named eight as a minimum age and twelve as the maximum.

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